by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 28, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
“Over the past two decades, student suicides have grown at an alarming annual rate of 4 per cent, double the national average. In 2022, male students constituted 53 pc (per cent) of the total student suicides. Between 2021 and 2022, male student suicides...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 16, 2024 | Health, Indian News, Risk Management
Thoughts of self-harm or suicide in the last 12 months were reported by 16.2 per cent MBBS students while the number was recorded at 31 per cent in MD/MS students, according to the report by the National Task Force on Mental Health and Well-being of Medical Students...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 1, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
The products are “negligently designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave and learn,” a joint statement by the boards said. That has caused learning and mental health crises in students, resulting in the schools having to invest more in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 12, 2022 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
The agency also said it is no longer recommending unvaccinated people quarantine after exposure, saying around 95% of the U.S. population has either been vaccinated or had COVID-19 already, or both The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 16, 2022 | Facts, Health
On China’s Twitter-like social media platform Sina Weibo, many netizens have attributed the condition of the Chinese students to heavy schoolbags, and inappropriate sizes and heights of desks for children in different physical developmental stages reported...